Bill Willingham Quotes
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We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.
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Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.
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I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.
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Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.
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Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.
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Yeah, well my heart bleeds for you: You know what they say. The only easy day was yesterday.
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One thing I have finally gotten through my thick skull: Anyone looking for love is also looking for trouble.
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I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.
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He's every adventure I ever want to be on.
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But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.
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Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.
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Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.
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Remember what dad said. You're still alive-- you still fight.
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Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?
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Our fictions move us to do great things, things worth doing for no better reason than there's poetry in us. We dream before we do.
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Hope has power only when married to personal action.
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Nothing like a good war to forget a night of exquisite soul-killing humiliation.
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No thanks. This is a lovely dream, but it's a child's dream. I know some who'd argue the point, but I grew up long ago.
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Different rules apply to those who shake the worlds.
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What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.
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Since you types wouldn't be happy unless you're unhappy, I wouldn't dare try to take your joy away by solving your problems.
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My partner and I are very serious about the hero profession.
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An election is just a romance writ large, with an entire community, rather than a single woman, as the object of one's pursuit.
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If it's today, you'll know it from the news. If it's a hundred thousand tomorrows from now, you'll know it as a legend. If it's later than that, you'll think it mere myth.